Day: July 29, 2018

Exploring the industrial revolution which changed the landscape and infrastructure of Britain forever. By Dr. Matthew White Visiting Research Fellow University of Hertfordshire The 18th century saw the emergence of the ‘Industrial Revolution’, the great age of steam, canals and factories that changed the face of the British economy forever. Early Industry Early 18th century British[…]

The first important transformation of English medieval design practice occurred in a military context, during the reign of Henry VIII. Pioneering plans, surveys and designs by leading Tudor engineers are housed in the British Library, particularly within Sir Robert Cotton’s manuscript collection. Anthony Gerbino, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Manchester, explores[…]

Statue of Constantine the Great in Yorkminster / Creative Commons Even had its Empire never existed, Byzantium would surely have impressed itself upon our minds and memories by the music of its name alone. By Dr. John Julius Norwich Ancient Historian With such impiety pervading the human race, and the State threatened with destruction, what[…]

Proclaiming Claudius Emperor by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1867 / Wikimedia Commons The Praetorian Guards were the personal bodyguards of the Emperors of the Roman Empire. The name was used from the time of the Roman Republic, denoting the protection of Roman generals, which existed from 275 BC. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 07.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief[…]

Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in writings associated with Hippocrates, the early physician and ‘father of Western medicine’. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 07.28.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Ancient faeces from prehistoric burials on the Greek island of Kea have provided the first archaeological[…]

Voynich Manuscript. / Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Wikimedia Commons Can we hope to find new remedies by studying ancient medical texts? By Dr. Laurence Totelin / 10.07.2015 Lecturer in Ancient History Cardiff University The discovery that won the latest Nobel Prize for Medicine wouldn’t have been much of a revelation to doctors in ancient China. Pharmaceutical chemist[…]